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DCP-LETT-2177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681
Summary:

For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-57-12-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
15 December 1857
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-57-12-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
17 December 1857
Source of text:
No. 6436, unit 3, p. 275, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1059

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
19 December 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.145, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-57-12-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Moore
Date:
29 December 1857
Source of text:
No. 6694, unit 3, p. 284, VPRS 963 correspondence register, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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